Word: hengyang
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...From Hengyang, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled last week...
...padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...
...first question would be answered when the resurgent Chinese forces neared Hengyang. If the Japanese made a determined stand there, it would mean that they meant to hold the Yangtze basin with its great cities, river ports and seaports...
Meanwhile T.V.'s appointment had given China and China's friends a new burst of hope. In a full summer and autumn of battle, the Chinese had been defeated at Hengyang. They had been defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...
Kweilin's defenses were the best the Chinese had mustered since Hengyang (which withstood siege for 41 days). The city had miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over...